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Masters2020 scheduling grid
Announcing the 3rd annual Masters interactive scheduling grid.? The
schedule is a little simpler this year -- it remains to be seen whether
that makes it easier or harder to fit in everything you want.? Day 1 is
all required courses, so it doesn't appear on the grid.? See PDF sent
out previously with full course descriptions.? Click
the classes you want, it grays out the ones you can't attend and shows
other options for the ones you selected in light green.? Click "Save" at
the bottom to get a list by class name or time slot. Hope this helps plan out your preferred classes -
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Hi Guys,
Have any one of you controlled the storm audio ISP 3d.16 Elite amplifier via I.P.. If so can you share the module because thier team told me that there is one available on the crestron website but I was unable to find it there and even on the application market. |
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Re: Integrating to proprietory BACnet objects
#crestron
Dear Sir,
You have not put in the correct object ids in ur remote multistate value object. |
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Re: Independent programming advice
开云体育1-????? You definitely need and want insurance. Talk to a good broker but generally general liability, commercial auto, and errors & omissions (E&O) are expected/required contracting work in addition to workers comp which you may or may not be required to carry as a sole proprietor (and even if you aren’t required by law, some companies you contract with may still require it). Virtually any company is going to want a COI with them as a named insured before they’ll subcontract and that’s where a broker that’s easy to deal with is very important. 2-????? That’s where a detailed scope of work and conversations with the client are important. Yes the consultant put it in the spec and it may technically be required but if you can have a conversation with your client (e.g. the one hiring you) depending on their level of risk tolerance and situational awareness it may be something they formally take up the chain (e.g. through the RFI process) or they may take the risk on (yeah, ignore that)…that’s not really your concern as long as your scope of work is clear as to what you will be providing and what you aren’t providing. 3-????? That’s something you’ll have to develop a feel for. Even when you have a feel for it there will be times when your hair is on fire and times when you’re slow. Use the slow times to do what you can so when your hair is on fire you don’t suffer burns. Managing resources is critical and over promising and under delivering is a great way to alienate clients. ? 4-????? Again totally philosophically driven. 95% of what I oversee is a fixed rate contract where as long as the scope of work doesn’t change the total cost doesn’t change and is inclusive of our onsite commissioning services. Some do 100% on the clock (time and materials) billing. 5-????? Still philosophically driven. Anything big you should catch and flag while you’re developing the scope and address it there (exclude functionality, state an assumed correction that you can do whatever). Generally if it’s obvious and we didn’t raise it that’s on us. For true changes to the scope after the fact if it’s small (e.g. it would take longer to write up a change order, invoice, etc. than to just do) it’s not worth a CO. If it’s debatable and everything else is going well, it’s not worth it for the relationship to CO everything that moves. But there’s give and take. If someone’s making a project unnecessarily difficult they’re more likely to get a CO than someone who’s making a project easy. Big things (like adding an entire room) virtually always get a CO. There’s a lot of give and take and reading the situation to walk the line between a profitable and unprofitable project and also nurturing or killing a relationship. There are a lot of independent programmers out there. 6-????? 100% absolutely. In painful detail. State the obvious. Spell out what you will do, and if it’s ambiguous what you won’t do. Liability. Payment terms. A lawyer up front to draft a template/boilerplate can save tens or hundreds of thousands down the road and may be a requirement of your GL or E&O carrier. ? Make sure you understand the costs of doing business – the annual CSP fees, insurance, taxes, continuing training, bad debt, etc. Make sure you understand the business processes and accounting (or have someone who’s good at it so you can focus) – how ?PO gets ingested, how and when invoices get generated, payments reconciled, etc. ? I believe Crestron now requires an approved business plan for new CSPs so you may want/need to find a mentor who can help put that together. ? There’s a lot more to independent programming than just programming. ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS, DMC-E-4K/T/D ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of AVProgrammer
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 9:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [crestron] Independent programming advice ? Hello, |
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Independent programming advice
Hello,
I been in the AV industry for about 10 years.? I have programmed for 4 and is Crestron certified.? I have few people I know reached to me from their respective companies to ask me to program for them independently. Those companies are in NY and MA area. I am thinking about leaving my current company and do my own independent programming instead.? I never did any kind of subcontracting work. I don't know what I would need besides a computer.? 1) Like how construction company have insurance, do I need them?? 2) I have seen projects where the consultant put everything under the sun such as contrast control, brightness, sharpness, etc for TV.? My manager tells me, yeah that is common and don't worry about it. Luckily we do GUI submittals,but how do you manage that if you are putting a price on something that beside the work are even done? 3) How many project can I take on at a time? From working with my current company and how AV works, programmer are the last to get in or dates get push back which causes scheduling conflicts. 4) How do I charge them and how much should I charge? By the hour, by the day, by the project?? Do I charge them differently if I have to go on site vs not going onsite?? 5) How do I charge for change orders?? Should I speak up when there is a system design flaw?? Working with my company, if something isn't working, we work it out internally but what do I do when I am subcontracting and I cannot code properly because there are mistakes in the design base on the scope?? 6) Do I need a contract for the project or a contract with the company? I just want to make sure I can cross my T and dot my I before I really venture out on my own.? Are there other matters I am not thinking about? Thanks for any input.? George. |
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Re: Controlled Kettle
I had a customer that wanted to eliminate the dead band on his Crestron thermostat so any time the house was even a fraction of a degree too cold the heat would come on and when it was a fraction of a degree too warm the A/C would come on.? When he said it should be 72 degrees he meant 72 degrees and nothing else was acceptable.? He was a retired judge :-)
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Sent: 12/19/2019 6:01:42 AM
Subject: Re: [crestron] Controlled Kettle If you think this is bad...a client once asked me to tie his Toto Washlet into his system so he could flush the toilet with the ML-600 he had in his bathroom.? I calmly explained to him that it made no sense to have to go find the ML-600 when he could just use the wireless toilet remote that was mounted on the wall about 12" away from? him...or when he could just flush it manually when he stood up.? Then I jokingly told him that, if he insisted I integrate the toilet, that I was going to make the toilet flush once every year on my birthday.? He laughed and just said "Ok, I get your point". |
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Re: Interlogix alternative
开云体育We switched to the DSC Power Series Pro Panels. ?Work great, actually nicer than the GE
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Re: Interlogix alternative
I never found HAI to be unreliable at all. Those things are solid and we will miss them. But like you we are in the same boat need need something more custom than Honeywell. Our company owner was holding on to hope that there would be something on the Bosch-Crestron front but it appears they have stopped development so looks like we only have a few options.?
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Re: Controlled Kettle
If you think this is bad...a client once asked me to tie his Toto Washlet into his system so he could flush the toilet with the ML-600 he had in his bathroom.? I calmly explained to him that it made no sense to have to go find the ML-600 when he could just use the wireless toilet remote that was mounted on the wall about 12" away from? him...or when he could just flush it manually when he stood up.? Then I jokingly told him that, if he insisted I integrate the toilet, that I was going to make the toilet flush once every year on my birthday.? He laughed and just said "Ok, I get your point".
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Re: Crestron Certified Drivers - Fire TV 4K CEC - no control
FireTV's do have a few glitches that require reboot from time to time (not related to controlling them).? I have several FireTV 4K's, and I don't notice too big of a speed problem with them.? The Fire Stick is definately slower than the standard FireTV box, are you referring to the stick when doing a comparison, or is Roku that much smoother (even compared to the normal FireTV box)?? Having not used a Roku before, I've not compared them.? It's a shame that Amazon dropped the ADB support, I did not hear about this (that sucks!).
The reason I think the FireTV still has an edge is that you can sideload android .apk's to them still, so they are widely popular for cheap Kodi boxes.? My only problem is they are a bit short on memory.? 8GB doesn't go far when you start installing a bunch of apps or have Kodi installed.? Roku's are very popular, but not very open or flexible to other things with them.? Unless they've changed, they were way more locked down that the alternatives (other than Apple) and so were not popular in the "alternative use" market.? FireTV's problem is they were great when they were released several years ago, but the spec's haven't kept pace.? The newer versions are dopping ethernet ports, and they are trying to add Alexa in instead of making a version with a faster processor or more memory.? I want something similar to the FireTV 4K, but faster, double the memory, and keep the built-in ethernet connector.? They can keep Alexa out of it for all I care, that is not what I want in a streaming box.? I also prefer an actual box that can sit on a shelf or near network connectors, and my AV receiver, and not "hang off the back of the TV from the HDMI connector (waiting to fall out). I would probably try out an NVidia shield as my next box, just for the openness of it, and I hear they are pretty fast running.? I would hope they have more than 8GB of memory too, and they still allow .apk sideloads. -- Jason Mussetter Control Systems Designer Mussetter Programming Services |
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Re: Controlled Kettle
开云体育I’m afraid we may have passed that point already… there is hope for turning the shift… ? To the original question (and what may have been overlooked in some of the replies) there’s a fine line between interfacing with something that’s built to be integrated and bodging integration, especially when you’re talking about something that’s not fail safe or intended for life safety applications. ? If there was a kettle designed to be integrated (I’m not aware of one, but I also don’t drink any warm/hot beverages as a matter of course) it would almost assuredly have a fail-safe design to account for possible failure modes and, also, likely, would be capable of operating on a stand-alone basis – the appliances that play nice with Alexa/Google and are sold via normal retail channels have to fall into this category or the relevant consumer safety organizations would end that now. ? On the other hand, bodging your own integration with a series of valves, relays, etc. for a generic kettle has so many ways to go horribly wrong (relays get stuck open/closed, valve doesn’t open or doesn’t close, etc.) which potentially has a much greater liability exposure. ? This is in the same vein of integrating a thermostat (be it one of Crestron’s, Aprilaire, Honeywell, or any of the other integratable stats) versus just reinventing the stat with a temperature sensor and Crestron programming. If done properly it should “always” work but when it doesn’t and the pipes freeze or you run the heater until the indoor temperature is 110 … it’s not going to be pretty. ? Lincoln ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS, DMC-E-4K/T/D ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
ElectricDogs
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 6:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [crestron] Controlled Kettle ? We are fast becoming the species depicted in Idiocracy.
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Re: Controlled Kettle
开云体育With Crestron we can control most anything we can think of.?
Even if it’s not practical Although it’s great to know we can.? Randy Hanner On Dec 18, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Crestron_Programmer <s.marszalek11@...> wrote:
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